Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Munster and the author of books including Paradigms for a Metaphorology (also in Cornell's Signale series), The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, and Work on Myth. Ahlrich Meyer, a German political scientist and historian, is the author of many books in German. Joe Paul Kroll is Editor at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany.
Blumenberg’s essay brilliantly demonstrates his thesis on the
subjectivity of ‘truth.’
*Neue Zürcher Zeitung*
The Reader is a kind of belated debutante ball for Hans Blumenberg
inviting a new audience to view Blumenberg not only at his entrance
to scholarly life in the 1940s but also to key moments in his
ascent of the rarefied staircase of German intellectual history....
A large and bounteous book.
*Critical Inquiry*
This work is recommended to everyone interested in Blumenberg’s
thinking and work.
*literaturkritik.de*
Rigorism of Truth has been received as a critically important text
revealing Blumenberg's political interests. It gives insight into
certain more articulated political views that remained hidden
during his lifetime.
*Phenomenological Reviews*
Rigorism of Truth is as philosophically complex as the book is
biographically and politically convoluted.
*Arendt Studies*
The book is an impassioned reflection on the power and failure of
the rigorous pursuit of truth by two prominent Jewish intellectuals
of the 21st century, namely, Sigmund Freud and Hannah Arendt.
Blumenberg's posthumously published views, originally taken from
his Nachlass, opens up important questions: what can truth achieve
for our understanding of human political reality? What is the role
of myth in the world of human affairs?
*Philosophy in Review*
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